1st Edition

Technology for Translating, Visualizing, and Generating Recipes Multimodal Machine Translation of Chinese into English

By Chan Sin-wai Copyright 2026
372 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

372 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book details the process of building a Chinese-English machine translation system that automatically translates Chinese recipes into English through machine processing without human intervention ( TransRecipe ). This system is able to translate recipes into pictures and videos ( VisualRecipe ) through image technology and develop a system that generates a recipe from a video on dish... Read more

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1, Introduction

Translating Recipes
Chapter 2. TransRecipe for Translating Recipes through Machine Processing
Chapter 3. Dish Names in Recipes
Chapter 4. Preparing the Food and Drink Database
Chapter 5. Translating Numerals and Measure Words
Chapter 6. Analysing Sentences by Parts of Speech
Chapter 7. Methods for Translating Recipes and the Creation of TransRecipe

Visualizing Recipes
Chapter 8. VisualRecipe for Visualizing Recipes through Image Technology

Generating Recipes
Chapter 9. GenRecipe for Generating Recipes from Videos through Deep Learning

Conclusion
Chapter 10. Recipe Technology for the Future

Biography

Chan Sin-wai is Professor-cum-Dean of Ip Ying To Lee Yu Yee School of Humanities and Languages of Saint Francis University, Hong Kong, China. He received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests lie mainly in the areas of translation technology and techno-humanities. He has published 96 academic books in 121 volumes.